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Paid articleRemembering Thomas C. Cornell (September 2022)
LAST WORD ‘I Believe in the Beatitudes’ Remembering Thomas C. Cornell PATRICK JORDAN The illustration on the program for the funeral Mass for Thomas C. Cornell said it all. A colorful...
Paid articleMartin Buber’s life of dialogue (June 2020)
ARTICLE A Life of Dialogue Patrick Jordan Martin Buber’s path to a believing humanism MARTIN BUBER A Life of Faith and Dissent paul mendes-flohr Yale University Press $26 | 440 pp. “I am...
Paid articleRemembering Jerry Ryan (March 2020)
SHORT TAKES PATRICK JORDAN The Part He Played Jerry Ryan, RIP Jerry Ryan (1937-2020), Boston Irish and Lithuanian, died on January 23. He was eighty-two. The son of a policeman, he began...
Paid article'Constant in the Struggle' (April 2018)
ARTICLES 'Constant in the Struggle' The Life & Writing of John Garvey Patrick Jordan For over four decades, John Garvey (1944-2015) was Commonweal's "elemental" columnist. Under the title "Of...
Paid articleCalled to Be Saints (June 2017)
BOOKS PatrickJordan Dorothy Day's 'Second Conversion'? Called to Be Saints John Hugo, the Catholic Worker, and a Theology of Radical Christianity Benjamin T. Peters Marquette University Press,...
Paid articleJunipero Serra and Journey to the Sun (June 2014)
Patrick Jordan Mission Applaudable? Junipero Serra California's Founding Father Steven W. Hackel Hill and Wang, $27, 327 pp. Journey to the Sun Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of...
Paid article'The Gospel Is Hard (January 2013)
Articles ‘The Gospel Is Hard’ A Friend Remembers Dorothy Day Patrick Jordan One of the most striking things about Jesus as recorded in the Gospels—at least to me—is how directly he...
Paid articleWater (August 2012)
Patrick Jordan The Big Thirst Water Asia's New Battle Ground Brahma Chellaney Georgetown University Press, $29.95, 384 pp. Water has no substitute. With that maxim, Brahma Chellaney begins his...
Paid articleA Continous Story (April 2012)
Patrick Jordan A Continuous Story Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians Luke Timothy Johnson Eerdmans, $23, 206 pp. The parable of the sower...
Paid articleNotebook: Deo Gratias (January 2012)
NOTEBOOK PatrickJordan Deo Gratias A LAST WORD Dear Commonweal readers: I am retiring after twenty-eight years on the job, and the editor has invited me to use this page to bid a farewell. Over...
Paid articleBottom Of The 33Rd (June 2011)
BOOKS Patrick Jordan 195 Outs Bottom of the 33 rd Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game Dan Barry Harper, $26.99, 259 pp. I grew up hearing Jim Murray, the inimitable Los Angeles...
Paid articleAnarchy and Apocalypse (April 2011)
Patrick Jordan Prophetic Stringency Anarchy and Apocalypse Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy Ronald E. Osborn Cascade Books, $20, 174 pp. Whatever one's take on the later rise of...
Paid articleWhen Values Collide (December 2010)
Patrick Jordan Where There Is Injury When Values Collide The Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse, and the Challenges of Leadership Joseph P. Chinnici Orbis, $25, 236 pp. Joseph P. Chinnici is a...
Paid articleOscar Romero and the Communion of the Saints (by Scott Wright) (April 2010)
Patrick Jordan Saint of Salvador Oscar Romero and the Communion of the Saints Scott Wright Orbis, $20, 174 pp. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar...
Paid articleThe Future Church (November 2009)
Books Patrick Jordan Cloudy Crystal Ball The Future Church How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday, $28, 480 pp. John Allen is the most...
Paid articleSense of the Faithful (March 2009)
E ven before opening Sense of the Faithful, Jerome P. Baggett’s timely sociological examination of how American Catholics from six parishes in the San Francisco Bay Area understand and practice...
Paid articleWalker Evans:Carbon & Silver (October 2006)
Art Uncomfortably Beautiful Patricl :Jordan WALKER EVANS IN NEW YORK M photographs of Southem share- ore than eighty of Walker arts in that a photographer's original neg- decaying...
Paid articleFAREWELL John Cort, R.I.P. (September 2006)
John Cort, R.I.P. W hen John C. Cort, the writer, editor, activist, husband of sixty years and father of ten, and self-proclaimed Christian socialist died last month in Massachusetts at...
Paid articleA Way of Seeing, a Way of Giving (July 2006)
.g i 0 Patricl ]ordan A Way of Seeing, a Way of Giving THE LEGACY OF EMIL ANTONUCCI E mil Antonucci, the gifted artist and graphic designer who created Commonweal's distinctive new format...
Paid articleThe Sower (December 2005)
The Last Word .g ~a r o 0 The Sower Patrich ~ordan W e need more farmers. Not industrial farmers, family farmers, or even subsistence, organic farmers (although we could do with more of...
Paid articleEditor's Notebook (March 2005)
Patrich ]ordan A Million Flowers REMEMBERING ARCHBISHOP ROMERO T he single bullet tore into his chest and shattered his spine. He was sixty-three at the time, but had been at his particular job...
Paid articleTransfigurations El Greco at the Met (December 2003)
ART Patrick Jordan TRANSFIGURATIONS El Greco at the Met There is simply no mistaking an El Greco. But once you identify it, do you really look at it? That is precisely the challenge facing the...
Paid articleBETWEEN THE LINES Could Day have written a better book? (May 2002)
BETWEEN THE LINES Patrick Jordan In a brief letter to the editors (November 3,1939) commending Commonweal on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, Dorothy Day wrote that Catholic Worker...
Paid articleBOOKS (October 2001)
ONE OF A KIND Saint Francis of Assisi G.K. Chesterton Image Books, $10.95, 149 pp. Salvation Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis Valerie Martin Alfred A. Knopf. S24, 271 pp. Patrick...
Paid articleWTC (September 2001)
THE LAST WORD WTC Patrick Jordan The World Trade Center was constructed during the Vietnam War. I remember watching it rise, the bare light bulbs of the construction crews swinging...
Paid articleSanctions on Iraq (February 2001)
C ORRESPONDENCE A clarification In my letter inquiring about the church's agenda regarding a sexual orientation that it considers objectively disordered, the editors of Commonweal replied,...
Paid articleGo in peace (November 2000)
dear attack submarine; Pakistan is trying to buy subs that can be fitted with nuclear weapons; with Russia's assistance, India is developing a submarine reactor; and Russia is aid- In need...
Paid articleNotebook Eye on Sudan (March 2000)
science," Larch tells Homer, "should seize these moments lose sight of our innate limitations and the hard-won wisdom when we can play God." "I'm not sorry for anything I've of...
Paid articleOn Pilgrimage by Dorothy Day RELIGION BOOKS (March 2000)
tion by Mark and Louise Zwick,...
Paid articleCommonweal Confronts the Century (November 1999)
DEPRESSING & EXHILARATING Sommonweal Confronts the Century Liberal Convictions, Catholic Tradition Udited by Patrick Jordan & Paul Baumann l't<nJist<»n\. US, 411 ;>;;. Nary NcGrory T his fat...
Paid articleTHE WAR IN KOSOVO: What is a pacifist to do when confronted with the wholesale slaughter of civilians? (June 1999)
Patrick Jordan T hese are the notes of a quasi-pacifist, that is, of one who is not sure he is one. Over the past fifteen years, as a member of the Commonweal staff, I have found myself at...
Paid articleIN VIVID HUES: The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi (May 1999)
Patrick Jordan IN VIVID HUES The Treasury of Saint Francis ofAssisi Saint Francis of Assisi, a watershed saint, was one of those remarkable few who crack open the gospel in such a way that...
Paid articleOUT OF THE ASHES: Anselm Kiefer at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 1999)
ART Patrick Jordan OUT OF THE ASHES The postwar art of Anselm Kiefer It does not take long for "Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969-93"—fifty-four watercolors, gouaches,...
Paid articleNotebook (November 1998)
vestigation and the attempt to exploit the scandal for partisan purposes. Denied a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and facing a razor-thin majority in the House, the Republicans are...
Paid articleA death in the family (February 1998)
Patrick Jordan A DEATH IN THE FAMILY Ivan F. Alava, R.I.P. armen Alava is Commonweal's first person of welC come, a presence willing and helpful--on the phone, to each one who crosses our...
Paid articleCorrespondence Applause and complaints on many fronts (December 1997)
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Shaman? Thaumaturge? Perhaps you should advertise for an alchemist instead of a business manager. Best of luck. GERALDINE ETHEN Portland, Oreg. McConnell on...
Paid articleAN APPETITE FOR GOD Dorothy Day at 100; an appreciation (October 1997)
AH APPETITE FOR GOD Dorothy Day at 100 Patrick Jordan Dorothy Day was born on Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights on November 8,1897. On the hundreth anniversary of her birth, her spirit is...
Paid articleFighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice (February 1997)
Laborer in the vineyard Fighter with a Heart Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest Edited by Charles J. McCollester University of Pittsburgh Press, $19.95, paper, 242...
Paid articleThe state of Haiti (May 1996)
Patrick Jordan THE STATE OF HAITI Still at ground zero Strip to Haiti is unlike a thousand elsewhere. The small Caribbean country, the size of Massachusetts, is not only the poorest in the...
Paid articleO Jerusalem A sense of place and faith is renewed with a visit to the Holy Sepulchre (March 1996)
Patrick Jordan O JERUSALEM A journalist becomes a pilgrim Owent up to Jerusalem in January as a journalist, but quickly became a pilgrim. I write "up" because the psalms refer to the city that...
Paid articleIn Good Company by Stanley Hauerwas (February 1996)
A MUSCULAR PACIFIST In Good Company The Church as Potts Stanley Hatwrwas University of Notre Dame Press, $29.95,20$ pp. Patrick Jordan Stanley Hauerwas, Methodist theologian and university...
Paid articleNotebook: (August 1995)
NOTEBOOK IN THE BOMB WE TRUST REFLECTIONS It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but over the past fifty years, the bomb has become an accepted part of our lives, our most significant Significant...
Paid articleNotebook (April 1995)
Note book THE CARDINAL RULE 'VILLAGE VOICE' MEETS TOWN CRIER I really don't have anything against the Village Voice. Like Woody Allen or West Forty-second Street, it's just there, an undeniable...
Paid article'Commonweal' & the 'Catholic Worker' (November 1994)
1 9 2 4 . S E V E N T Y Y E A R . 1 9 9 4 'COMMONWEAL' & THE CATHOLIC WORKER' CONNECTS & DISCONNECTS PATRICK JORDAN A nniversaries are for celebrating, and major ones the more so....
Paid articleNotebook: (November 1993)
widespread uncertainty about American resolve abroad, and in action would have snapped her up at once, and we were mar- almost certain deprivation for the Somalis. As the UN's...
Paid articleDeath and Dignity (July 1993)
BOOKS 'Comfort care options' imothy Quill is the sort of competent, compassionate physician one would hope to find for oneself. Besides having a private practice in upstate New York, Quill...
Paid articleNotebook (July 1993)
care package would sanction a practice that means the taking of human life. Yes, some would say that this is not "protectable" human life; others would agree with the Supreme Court that this is a...
Paid articleEditor's notebook (May 1993)
three-way split among the rebels has turned them on one an- ...
Paid articleThomas Merton-Spiritual Master (April 1993)
in Chance and Circumstance (1978) of about a supposed "silent majority" yet say who went and who didn't. Yet twenty-eight nothing about the sacrifices their children years after...
Paid articleEditor's notebook: (March 1993)
a way in that can also provide an easy way out. But there victims of war and offering nonviolent ways of ending or eas- may be none such, and it would be prudent to...
Paid articleEditor's notebook (December 1992)
ET CETERA NEATNESS COUNTS Sisterlife, published by Feminists for Life of America, credits Samuel A. Nigro, M.D., of CaseWestern Reserve University, for this Q. and A.: "What happens when you...
Paid articleEditor's notebook (October 1992)
AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK PLASTIC OR PRINCIPLE? TO CHOOSE OR NOT TO CHOOSE y father told me never to get a credit card. It was in the early 1960s and the oil companies were after him to take out a...
Paid articleAn editor's notebook (May 1992)
BREEDING A ICU L THE HIGH COST OF NEGLECT There is an epidemic in the making. Its first victims have already died. It is caused by a wellknown killer, once tamed but now, like Hannibal Lecter in...
Paid articleAn editor's notebook (March 1992)
AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK CLARENCE T & CAMP J HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS In the February 28 issue of Commonweal, Michael Chapman, inmate No. 98764 at the Louisiana State Prison, Camp J, Angola,...
Paid articleArt (July 1991)
not have the compassion or the understanding to see that America is a heterogeneous society. I am sure that the same limited vision can be found in ward headquarters in an Italian or a black...
Paid articleA no-hands-tied war (March 1991)
rapidly reduced to their prewar numbers. Enforceable agreements on reducing the levels of offensive weaponry are vital in a region torn by conflict. Here the UN Security Council can have a...
Paid articleSeed of Sarah: (September 1990)
IN BRIEF SEED OF SARAH: MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR, by Judith Magyar Isaacson, University of Illinois Press, $18.95,171 pp. This story is almost too good to be true: the nearly miraculous deliverance...
Paid article'People power': (August 1990)
'People power' Santiago, Prague, Manila, Tiananmen Square, Berlin: in recent years, all have been sites of nonviolent protests that have altered the face of history and raised the credibility of...
Paid articleDoors of Perception/The Illuminating Icon: (November 1989)
IN BRIEF Doors of Perception: Icons and Their Spiritual Significance, by John Baggley, with an Appendix by Richard Temple. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, $12.95, 160 pp. The Illuminating Icon, by...
Paid articleAfter the storm (May 1989)
REPORT FROM JAMAICA AFTER THE STORM CAN MANLEY PICK UP THE PIECES? Half-a-year after the storm of the century, Hur ricane Gilbert, tore across Jamaica, the devas-H||H tation to the island nation...
Paid articleKeeping the Faith: (September 1988)
IN BRIEF Keeping the Faith. American Catholicism Past and Present, by Philip Gleason, Notre Dame, $24.95, 320 pp. This collection of ten essays, written between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s,...
Paid articleIn Solitary Witness (June 1987)
IN BRIEF In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jagerstatter. by Gordon Zahn, Templegate, $10.95, 288 pp. This is the revised edition of Gordon Zahn's study of the life and death of...
Paid articleJustice in the Marketplace (January 1987)
IN BRIEF Justice in the Marketplace: Collected Statements of the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic Bishops on Economic Policy, 1891-1984. Edited by David M. Byers, with introductions by John T....
Paid articleNo Time to Grieve (May 1986)
Apple Computer shows,...
Paid articleOffensive in nature (April 1986)
such a defense were to protect our own retaliatory vehicles, retaining an ability to "destroy the Soviet Union as a functioning society" if it should dare to attack us or our allies, it...
Paid articleDorothy Day still a radical (November 1985)
PATRICK JORDAN THIS MONTH marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day. At the time of her passing (November 29, 1980), the historian David J. O'Brien wrote in these pages (December...
Paid articleEasy Essays (October 1985)
Commonweal: 540 In Brief EASY ESSAYS, by Peter Maurin. Franciscan Herald Press, $6.95, 216 pp. This is the most recent edition of what might be called the "little green book" of the Catholic...
Paid articleAll God's Children (September 1985)
In Brief ALL GOD'S CHILDREN, by Dorothy Gauchat, Ballantine, $2.50, 161 pp. This is the challenging, true story of the Gauchats, an Ohio family who opened its doors and hearts to a...
Paid articleHope and Sufferingi (September 1985)
In Brief Hope and Suffering: Sermons and SPEECHES, by Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Eerdmans, $10.95, 189 pp. Bishop Tutu has said elsewhere the church has five marks: it is one, holy, catholic,...
Paid articleAn interview with Mario M. Cuomo (May 1985)
'TO SERVE & TO HAVE SOME FUN' An interview with Mario M. Cuomo AT THE beginning of 1984, many Americans west of the Mississippi confused New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo with a middle-aged...
Paid articleUp in the Park (December 1984)
narrative flaws, wooden characters, and lack of eloquence that would prevent Prince of Peace from becoming a best seller; more likely, it will be its one principal virtue: too much depressing...
Paid articleRice, Rivalry, and Politics (June 1984)
In the process of getting to this point, in effect a methodological essay on the limits and, more importantly, the inexhaustible sources of reason, Brown's first chapters criticize the New...
Paid articleBooks (May 1984)
l l l l l l Books: ANTI-IMPERIALISM & ASCETICISM A CCORDING to Raghavan Iyer (The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi), more books and essays have been written about Gandhi...
Paid articleThe Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor: (November 1983)
In brief The Presence Of Grace And Other Book Reviews By Flannery O'Connor, Compiled by Leo J. Zuber, edited by Carter W. Martin, University of Georgia Press, $16, 189 pp. This is a splendid...
Paid articleBeyond the Nuclear Freeze: (October 1983)
Beyond The Nuclear Freeze by Robert F. Drinan, Seabury, $7.95, 170 pp. This book by the Jesuit law professor and former congressman is a short history of arms control cum handbook for advocates of...
Paid articleBaseball's Great Experiment/Branch Rickey/Invisible Men: (October 1983)
Books: BLACKS ON THE DIAMOND BASEBALL'S GREAT EXPERIMENT JACKIE ROBINSON AND HIS LEGACY Jules Tygiel Oxford, $16.95, 392 pp. BBANCH RICKEY: A BIOGRAPHY Murray Pokier Atheneum, $14.95, 207...
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AuthorJordan, Virgil
AuthorJordan, William
AuthorJordy, William H.
AuthorJorgensen, Johannes
AuthorJorstad, Eric
AuthorJoseph, Brother
AuthorJoseph, Lawrence
AuthorJoseph, Peter Green, LeRoy Smith, Jr, Charles Haddox, Lawrence
AuthorJoseph, Stephen M.
AuthorJost, Timothy Stoltzfus
AuthorJoy, Charles R.
AuthorJoy, P.
AuthorJoy, Patrick
AuthorJoyce, Alice
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AuthorJoyce, James F
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AuthorJoyce, John T.
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